BIO:  AUGUSTUS HORNER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 577
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    AUGUSTUS HORNER, one of the prominent business men of Mechanicsburg, a
  leading builder and contractor, was born April 18, 1849, son of Samuel and
  Anna (Baker) Horner, both deceased.

    Samuel Horner was a prominent farmer of Silver Spring township, son of
  George Horner, who also followed farming in the same locality. The latter was
  the father of five sons and three daughters, seven of whom grew up, namely:
  Jeremiah, George, William, Andrew, Samuel, Polly, Sarah and Ann. Samuel of
  the above family was born in 1816 and died in 1881. In 1844 he married Annie
  Baker, daughter of John Baker, of Cumberland county, and this marriage, was
  blessed with four children, as follows: George, of York county; Augustus;
  Amanda, wife of William Rhodes, a farmer of Cumberland county; Samuel J., of
  Mechanicsburg. The mother of this family was born in 1821, and died at
  Mechanicsburg in 1894.

    Augustus Horner was reared on his father's farm in Silver Spring township,
  and obtained his education in the public schools. He continued on the farm
  until the age of twenty-four years, and then engaged in farming in Upper
  Allen township for five years. Although considered a good farmer, Mr. Horner
  decided to learn the carpenter's trade, which he completed at Mechanicsburg,
  and followed the same as journeyman some time, when he began contracting and
  building, a business in which he has been very successful for the past
  fifteen years.

    Mr. Horner married Mrs. Mary (Cadwalader) Fishel, and two sons have been
  born to them, Augustus and William. Both Mr. and Mrs. Horner are consistent
  members of the Reformed Church at Mechanicsburg. Fraternally, Mr. Horner
  belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. He has been prominent also in
  politics, and has served most usefully as chief of the fire department, and
  also as a member of the council of Mechanicsburg. The success which Mr.
  Horner has met with in business, and the high measure of esteem in which he
  is held by his fellow citizens, are the direct results of an industrious,
  temperate and honest life, one which may be emulated by others.